5,322 Quotes About Mother

  • Author Amy Poehler
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    When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

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  • Author Amy Poehler
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    When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

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  • Author Amy Poehler
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    It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

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  • Author Amy Poehler
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    I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

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  • Author Amy Poehler
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    Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

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  • Author Amy Poehler
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    What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.

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  • Author Andrei Platonov
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    If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

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  • Author Andy Partridge
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    We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

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